Levi Golden “Bud” Hunt (1865-1919)
Names Detail
First Name
LeviMiddle Name
GoldenNick Name/Preferred Name
BudLast Name
HuntBirth and Death
Birth Date
November 13, 1865Death Date
May 2, 1919Age at Death
53 year(s), 5 month(s), 19 day(s)Cemetery Location and Disposition
Cemetery Location
Row 06, Grave 16 | MapDisposition Type
BurialEpitaph
Earth has no sorrowRelationships to Others at the Cemetery
- Husband of Mary Evelyn “Eva” [Jenkins] Hunt (1868-1934)
- Father of Arthur H. “Bud” Hunt (1884-1973)
- Father of Josephine “Josie” [Hunt] Barton (1887-1934)
- Father of Sophie L. Hunt (1891-1903)
- Father of Jessie [Hunt] Duncan (1894-1986)
- Father of Vergie "Verg" [Hunt] Duncan (1896-1984)
- Father of Levada "Leva" Hunt (1899-1912)
- Father of Willie “Bill” [Hunt] Duncan (1904-1994)
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Levi Golden “Bud” Hunt was born near Florence, Texas, Williamson County, on November 13, 1865, to Hayden Jackson Hunt (1829-1883), born in Tennessee, and Elizabeth Gore (1829-1879), born in Franklin County, Tennessee. His parents married on November 27, 1849, in Franklin, Franklin County, Tennessee, and the couple were living there with her parents according to the 1850 census. His parents moved to Georgetown, Texas, sometime between 1850 and 1860. He and his brothers built and lived in a log cabin about four miles east of present-day Highway 183. The brothers caught, tamed, and bartered wild horses to pioneers traveling through the area. It was there that he met his future wife Mary Evelyn “Eva” Jenkins. They married on March 12, 1884, in Georgetown, after her family moved there from Payne Gap. A year later, the couple moved to Payne Gap and first made a home on property later known as the Paul Horton place, located east of the Payne Gap Cemetery. Soon they bought land from Sid Smith, located just west of the cemetery, which later became known as the Bud Hunt place. They built a home on the property around 1890 and reared their family there. Bud served as a Payne Gap School trustee for a period that included 1910. Bud died on May 2, 1919, at age 53. Dr. Hicks, his doctor from Moline, reported on his death certificate that the cause of death was consumption (not related to tuberculosis), exacerbated by cryptitis.
Entry for “Hunt” in Land of Good Water, Takachue Pouetsu: a Williamson County, Texas, History, by Cara Stearns Scarbrough (Georgetown, Texas: Williamson County Sun Publishers, 1973), page 431:
Hunt, a crossing over the North Gabriel and a rural school, named for Hayden Hunt and several brothers who came there in the 185os, built a log cabin near the river crossing, the fourth up the river from Georgetown. Mart Hunt ran a gin and corn mill on the north bluff of the river and Hayden Hunt added to and covered over the original log cabin to take care of a growing family. An Indian who worked for Hunt and who later obtained a job with a railroad crew was killed during a fracas among the crew and was buried in the Hunt family cemetery. A headstone with the man’s name was erected but torn down by vandals, and the Indian’s name has thus been lost … In 1887, the county superintendent of schools described Hunt School as seven or eight miles up the North Gabriel from Georgetown “in pleasant surroundings.”70Interviews Mathison, Hunt; “Lone Star State”, 609; “Sun”, Nov. 24, 1887
All of Levi’s children are buried at the Payne Gap Cemetery.